Sentences with phrase «factory workers working»

This complex was home to factory workers working in extremely dangerous and unsafe conditions for less than a living wage making the clothes so many of us wear.

While shopping for affordable clothes, you can't help to think about the price paid by garment factory workers working 20 hours a day.

Factory Workers work in industrial units where they operate machines to create products.

Position Overview Factory workers work in several different types of industries including food and beverage and even furniture.

Not exact matches

We respectfully asked the Cambodian government to continue to improve working conditions for Cambodian factory workers and treat civil society with fairness, in accordance with international standards and norms.»

In one recent case, NGOs worked with the company to reintegrate workers in Honduras into a new Gildan operation after they were laid off at another factory.

But in morning, despite the orders to the contrary, textile workers left their work in several factories and sent delegates to ask for support of the strike... which led to mass strike... all went out into the streets.

And last year, Li & Fung was responsible for some garments produced at the Tazreen Fashions factory, when 112 workers died in November in a fire after many of them were ordered to continue working even though alarms had sounded.

«There's not enough factories, workers or equipment, so it won't work unless someone is willing to make a massive investment... and I don't know who is going to step up.»

Since you always have a choice of where you spend your money, even though some of us conveniently forget uncomfortable truths, Girlfriend Collective's factory uses no forced or child labor, mandates fair working hours and safe conditions, pays living wages, and allows workers to unionize.

Right now, the human worker who does, say, $ 50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things.

In addition, Mulally negotiated a landmark labor agreement with the United Auto Workers in 2009 that eased onerous work rules and introduced a 50 percent lower wage for new factory hires.

He worked at Tesla for nearly four years, and said he heard about 60 other workers in his section of the factory were dismissed.

We want the factory to work the way the workers say it will: managed through democratic decision - making, equal pay for all, etc..

There are certainly no obvious hazards of the kind that are commonplace on construction sites or in factories, and many office workers enjoy the benefits of rigid working days, rather than having their body clocks thrown by changing shift patterns.

The workers interviewed include trained engineers working on vehicle design and production, a supervisor and factory employees.

Workers at Tesla's California car factory have been working so hard they are passing out on the production line, say employees.

Starting a trade war might be cathartic for workers who have lost jobs, but it is unlikely to create a lot of factory work.

Workers at Tesla's California car factory have been working so hard they are passing out on the production line and requiring rides in ambulances, the Guardian reported Thursday.

Tesla factory workers this year began a public campaign with the UAW to unionize the plant to improve wages and working conditions.

Another key point to consider is that sometimes the factories and buildings in which these workers work often aren't safe.

On August 30, Georgetown University and Nike announced they had signed a new licensing agreement that will give the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) access to conduct inspections of working conditions in Nike supplier factories producing university - licensed products.

Women workers that work in the factories usually suffer from extremely poor working coditions and their wages very low.

The reasons are often that the factory is unionized and the workers are well paid, whereas in South Carolina a more docile labor force is willing to work for lower wages.

And how well did that work for slaves the first 300 years, child labor exploited and coal miners and factory workers suffering horrific working conditions and safety issues in the early 1900's, women still fighting the glass ceiling that exists, etc.?

Three hundred workers, mostly young women, couldn't get out of the factory, because the management put steel bars on windows and kept the doors locked in order to prevent them from stealing or leaving the work site early.

The working conditions there are so poor that at the factory in Zhuhai, 23 workers were hospitalized due to benzene poisoning and three had died in January 1992.

In Detroit Niebuhr discovered the real cost of industrialization: dehumanization of the worker, nervous tensions, unemployment without compensation, broken bodies, appalling working conditions in the factories, and naive gentlemen with a genius for mechanics deciding the lives and fortunes of hundreds of thousands.

Blue - collar America worked in unionized factories run by a few giant companies that made an implicit commitment of lifetime employment to their white - collar workers.

The belief that every single person is precious in God's sight has inspired some Christians to work for social changes such as the abolition of slavery, an end to the exploitation of factory workers, the removal of racial discrimination and apartheid, and the prevention of cruelty to and the sexual abuse of women and children.

When artisans are replaced by factory workers, the satisfaction gained by work is reduced.

In an attempt further to identify her life with factory workers, she worked in an automobile factory, a job which taxed her frail strength to the limit.

For Sachs, Bangladeshi workers are akin to the immigrants who once worked on New York's Lower East Side, «where their migration to toil in garment factories was a step on the path to a future of urban affluence in succeeding generations.»

A 2005 study found that 95 percent of women smuggled from Romania to Germany believed that they would be doing legitimate work as maids or factory workers.

But not a single — not a single — factory worker went out there... Not a single janitor, waitress or person who worked in that company!

In 1940 the largest single group was by far the industrial workers who worked in factories, as my mother and father did.

But the style and pace of the work they do as artisans (their «work process,» a central category in Marxist analysis) is still largely in their own hands, which is not the case for factory workers, For Gramsci, this contradictory position of intellectuals has both advantages and disadvantages.

Electrical Trades Union state secretary Troy Gray said demand for a Senate inquiry was coming from ordinary workers in factories, shops, offices and service providers, where «powerless and voiceless Australians spend their working lives, our of sight from the political and corporate elite».

i like the fact that whenever you do indeed think of arsenal you think classy, but the funny thing is we originally were a working class club started by the workers of the royal arsenal woolwich armaments factory.

I know they also used to and maybe still do provide free formula as a «benefit» to their factory workers so they can return to work faster.

Marian's life is an eclectic mix: child of the Great Depression, mother of seven, global ambassador of a fledgling breastfeeding support organization, during a time period when most women were either stay - at - home mothers or were working as teachers, secretaries, or factory workers.

By this rationale, a well - educated, professional woman is not to be as sympathetic a figure as a waitress or factory worker who presumably works to make ends meet.

Both full - time mothers and the considerable number of working mothers - employed as domestics, factory workers, seamstresses, teachers, secretaries, clerks, or telephone operators - no doubt embraced and benefited from already - prepared solid infant food.

He said: «The bill tries to drive a false wedge between government, industry, employees and the public by restricting rights — and at worst criminalising — ordinary working people, from midwives to factory workers to challenge low - pay or health and safety concerns.

In the document, Milne argued that communism had frightening connotations for most people in Britain «mainly due to ignorance» and he set out a vision where «factories and farms will be run by committees of workers, elected by workers (as in China where this has proved to work very well)».

Disabled workers from factories around the UK will lobby MPs at the rally at the House of Commons on Tuesday 27th November, urging MPs to press ministers to deliver on the new direction agreed at Labour Party Conference based on choice for disabled workers and public procurement to ensure a flow of work to keep the Remploy factories open.

«White van man» is a long - used symbol of the working class British man: the craftsmen, tradesman, plumbers, builders, electricians and countless other vital workers who keep our houses, offices and factories in good order.

He said the biggest change is that much more factory work has been automated, and overseen by fewer, but more highly skilled workers.

For examples of the later, see the direct seizure of productive property by workers councils in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (this later develops from sit - in strikes, or work ins or general strikes with factory occupations).

Most broad population studies comparing lab workers with nonlab workers show little overall increase in the risk of pregnancy complications or birth defects, although one study showed a tendency toward low birth weights and shorter gestational lengths in cases where either parent worked in a chemical factory.